Some of the earthquake victims have started to benefit from Tear Fund’s housing project. Tear Fund is a Christian NGO from England, which stated that they are in Haiti to contribute in as many ways as possible to help the people. They provide transitional shelter, training for the children, microcredit for small vendors and more.

In order for Tear Fund to have started with its work, it recruited many people to join its rank, created committee to investigate what were needed, started… Continue

The ant phenomenon is not only in Fondwa, it is almost a national affair.

People in Fondwa had to dal with an ant invasion, now it’s Plaisance in the north. An ant epidemic has attacked Gobert, a communal section of Plaisance; The people in that locality have no idea what to do since the ant are destroying everything they possess.

Organization of Progressive Women Fondwa (OFPF), which is headquartered in Twokofi, is working in the area of fruit transformation. There are about 50 women who are working in the evaluation and transformation of the local products.

On Friday July 30th, 2010, Save the Children and Foundation Ferdiere put an end to the space for children program, which has lasted three months in Fondwa. This program provided a place for children who did not have access to school a chance to participate in the morning, and those who were attending school in the morning could participate after school.

For this occasion, one of the people in charge of children’s protection from the Save the Children sent a message to the people of… Continue

There has been an increase in NGOs presence in Haiti ever since the quake of January 12th. The citizen of Fondwa is a little skeptical about the promises being made such as they might receive housing, training, and food supply.
Tear Fund, Save the Children, BRAC to cite just a few are doing surveys of the population to assess pre and post- quake conditions.

According to some of the individuals, they mentioned that they would stop cooperating with these NGOs because for their… Continue

When I traveled to Haiti this past April someone told me a story when I was at a low point in my trip, emotionally drained and overwhelmed by the seemingly never-ending damage. It's about a man walking along a beach where thousands of starfish are washed ashore from the high tide brought in from a recent storm. The starfish, out of water and exposed to the bleaching sun, will die soon. As the man walks along, he encounters a fisherman walking along the shore, picking up starfish, one by one,… Continue

There are 570 communal sections in Haiti, Fondwa has the first university amongst the rural area. According to the initiative of the peasants’ movement of Fondwa, the university was the best way to commemorate the 200 years of Haiti’s independence, for that they established the University of Fondwa 2004 or UNIF 2004.

The first year students applaud all the hard work and effort of the faculty and…

Tearfund, an NGO from England came to Haiti after the earthquake of January 12th. Before then, they involvement in Haiti was through Baptist Mission and Founap. Tearfund is working in Gressier, Leogane, and four other communal sections outside of Leogane. They continue…

Arikia Milliken, whom you should know as one of our amazing Haiti Rewired community organizers, is now in Haiti. Among other things, she's hosting a meet up at the Hotel Olofsson in Port-au-Prince on April 8, if you are in PAP, please drop by.

She sent us an email earlier today, but her Internet connection is very spotty so I'm posting it on her behalf below.

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